Author: Adventures

As we hugged mama and said I love you, I could start to see the desire within her eyes for more. For more of HIM. Then as we were walking away Mama asks us when we will back. Well yesterday we returned. We crossed the river, walked up the dirt path, turned the corner and there was Mama outside the house. I can’t recall a time when I have felt so in grateful that HE brough  me back to a home. As I watched Mama get up from her perch and hurry to greet me, I was overjoyed by the smile on her face. At that moment I knew I was right where HE wanted me. We all surrounded Mama and...

I woke up this morning to a cloudy sky. As I laid there staring up at the mosquito net covering me, I couldn't help but think that all I wanted to do was curl up on a couch and watch a movie. It was one of those days, and all I wanted was to go hide in my basement with my sisters or maybe a few friends and watch all three extended addition Lord of the Rings back to back (with occassional breaks for baking or froyo runs of course). I started thinking about back home, missing my life that I left to be here instead. I wanted to walk up to the trailheads with my puppy dog and go for a...

God always has a purpuse for everything we do, I know that, I'm just trying to figure out what his purpose is for the time in Tanzania. Just as we arrive here, we are getting ready to leave. That is overwhelming and exciting all at the same time. In the past week we have been here I have seen God work in a multitude of ways. He's brought fellow believers together for a crusade (for us mzungus it was just a bunch of dancing). He's brought all 14 of us to a hospital full of sick mamas and little babies and formed relationships when no one knew what the other was saying. He showed...